#Shuffle Hero Pool

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slim sable
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Tired of having to recruit 15 heroes one by one and offering them up as a blood sacrifice to the nearest Monster Den just to get the trait you're looking for?
Who wouldn't be?! Please put in an option to shuffle the Hero Recruit pool, for a small Imperium cost if balance is a concern.

Or even give Pantheon Lords the ability to start with a designated hero, like a partner that Ruler always starts with.

cloud lynx
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I think the root of this issue is that some 80% of the unique hero features feel almost superficial or way too niche under most circumstances.

As a whole the "hero pool" is honestly kind of odd:

  • You can reroll all their abilities and signature skills immediately, so those don't matter.
  • The affinity points barely change anything in the long run, the total output of assigning a governor is usually less than that of a single building.
  • Their gear is always very outdated so it needs replacing 90% of the time. The only time I keep the original gear that a hero is wearing is if I have nothing else for the slot.

So to summarize, the only thing that I generally care about in a hero is their special abilities and to some extent their preloaded transformations if they come from some free city with good ones (but those are somewhat rare in my experience).

This means that the majority of the time when I pick a hero it's "because I need a new hero" and not because they are particularly interesting. Sure I've had some rounds where they all were slam dunks, but that's an outlier.

Finding some way to make heroes interesting other than the fact that they are heroes would be a great start to fixing this issue.

slim sable
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Yeah, especially as some traits are very important for a certain playstyle, either from a tactical or roleplay standpoint.

kindred flame
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Teach them the meaning of loss and the fear of having no heroes to protect them.

slim sable
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Wouldn't need to slaughter 10,000 heroes if I had another option to get decent ones.

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If you want me to consider the heroes valuable units whose loss I care about, give me the option to choose valuable heroes whose... loss I would care about.